Vegetable-cutter.



No. 639,847. Patented Dec. 26, I899. F. J. DUMAYER.

VEGETABLE CUTTER.

(Application filed May 31, 1899.] (No Model.)

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 639,847, cat-ea December 26, 1899'. Applicationfiled May 31, 1899. Serial No. 718,850. (No model.)

To all within it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK J. DOMAYER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dyersville, in the county of Dubuque and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Vegetable-Cutter, of which the following is a speci fication.

The invention relates to improvements in vegetable-cutters.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of vegetable-cutters and to provide an exceedingly simple and inexpensive one adapted for slicing large and small vegetables and capable of being readily arranged to accommodate either kind.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in,the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a vegetable-cutter constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view on line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the hopper or vegetable-support adapted to receive small vegetables. Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail sectional view illustrating the manner of adjustably mounting the removable hopper on the casing.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

1 designates vertical standards or sides provided at their lower ends with horizontal bottom pieces 2 to form a base and connected at their front edges by a rectangular plate 3 and at their upper ends by a top cross-bar 4. The sides or standards 1, the cross-bar 4, and the plate 3 form a partial casing or housing to receive a rotary cutter-disk 5, which is mounted on a horizontal shaft 6, journaled in suitable bearings 7 of intermediate cross-pieces 8. The cross-pieces 8, which are spaced apart to receive a pinion 9 and a gear-wheel 10, are secured to the sides or standards 1 at points between the ends thereof, as clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the accompanying drawings. The rotary cutter-disk is provided at intervals with radial slots 11, in which are arranged blades 12, detachably secured to the disks and adapted to be readily removed when it is desired to sharpen them.

The rotary cutter-disk, which is fast on the shaft 6, is arranged close to the inner face of the plate 3, which is provided With a circular opening 13 and which has vertical ways 14.- at opposite sides thereof to receive flanges 15 of a removable hopper or support 16. The re movable hopper or support 16, which extends outward from the circular opening of the plate 3, is substantially U-shaped in cross-section, rounded at the bottom, and it is disposed at an inclination to feed the vegetables or other material automatically, and thereby prevent the hand of the operator from coming in contact with the knives. The space within the hopper or support may be left entirely open to adapt the device for the reception of cabbages and the like, or, as illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4;

of the accompanying drawings, the hopper or support may be divided by vertical partitions 17 to adapt it for the reception of small vegetables. The ways 14 may be formed by strips of metal having L-shaped flanges, and the flanges of the support or hopper may be secured in the ways by thumb-screws 20, which will permit the hopper or support to be readily removed, replaced, and adjusted.

The pinion 9 is mounted on the shaft 6, and it meshes with the gear-wheel 10, which is mounted on a counter-shaft l8, journaled in suitable bearings of the cross-pieces 8 and provided at its outer end with a crank-handle 19. The vegetable-cutter, which is operated by rotating the crank-handle, may be placed on the table or other suitable support, or it may be arranged over the receptacle, so that the sliced material will fall therein.

It will be seen that the vegetable-slicer is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction, that it is easily operated, and that it may be readily arranged to accommodate large and small vegetables. The hopper or support is detachably mounted in the ways of the front plate, and either one may be readily arranged for use.

What is claimed is- In a vegetable-slicer, the combination of a casing provided at one side with an opening, the vertical L-shaped flanges arranged at opposite sides of said opening and forming ways open at the top and bottom, the detachable opening, and means for operating the shaft, 16

and adjustable hopper provided with latersubstantially as described. ally-projecting flanges fitting in the said In testimony that I claim the foregoing as Ways, the thumb-screws mounted on the L- my own I have hereto affixed my signature in shaped flanges and engaging the laterally-prothe presence of two Witnesses.

jecting flanges of the hopper, whereby the FRANK J. DOMAYER. latter is retained in position, ashaft journaled Witnesses:

within the casing and provided at one end JOHN A. SOI-INIEDERS,

with blades arranged to move past the said 13. J. SCHEMMEL. 

